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Publication : “Artemisia Gentileschi in a Changing Light”.

BARKER Sheila (dir.), Artemisia Gentileschi in a Changing Light, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017, 247 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

Raised to the status of an international luminary by her contemporaries and now revered as one of the defining talents of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi poses urgent questions for today’s scholars. The recent outpouring of new attributions and archival discoveries has profoundly enriched our knowledge of the artist, but it has also complicated, and sometimes contradicted, the former storyline. If she was illiterate and unschooled, how did she befriend Galileo and court playwright Jacopo Cicognini?  If she could not pay her bills, why did she continue to spend lavishly? How can we define her authorship if we admit workshop productions to her oeuvre? In these essays, an international cast of scholars and experts grapples with these problems, opening new paths of inquiry and laying bare their methodologies in fields as diverse as laboratory analysis, archival research, cultural history, literary analysis, and feminist art history. Among these approaches, connoisseurship takes center stage. By reconstructing  the chronology and rationale of Artemisia’s artistic iter, connoisseurship reveals the richness of her visual dialogues, including those with prominent contemporaries such as Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Vouet, Cristofano Allori, and Stanzione; with past artistic giants like Donatello and Michelangelo; and with the various hands who passed through her workshop as collaborators and assistants. These essays infuse our understanding of Artemisia with complexity and nuance, yet they also trace her characteristic mix of intelligence and verve in her art, her correspondence, and her deft social maneuvering, running like a thread through all stages of her life.

Sheila Barker, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 2002) is the founding director of the Jane Fortune Resarch Program on Women Artists, based at Medici Archive Project in Florence. Her previous publications include “Artiste nel chiostro” (Nerbini, 2016) and  “Women Artists in Early Modern Italy: Careers, Fame, and Collectors” (Harvey Miller / Brepols, 2016).

 

Table des matières :

Introduction
Sheila Barker

Identifying Artemisia:  The Archive and the Eye
Mary D. Garrard

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy and the Madonna of the Svezzamento: Two Masterpieces by Artemisia
Gianni Papi

Deciphering Artemisia: Three New Narratives and How They Expand our Understanding
Judith W. Mann

Unknown Paintings by Artemisia in Naples, and New Points Regarding Her Daily Life and Bottega*
Riccardo Lattuada

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders (1610) in the Context of Counter-Reformation Rome
Patricia Simons

Artemisia’s Money: A Woman Artist’s Financial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Florence
Sheila  Barker

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Literary Formation of an Unlearned Artist
Jesse Locker

Women Artists in Casa Barberini: Plautilla Bricci, Maddalena Corvini, Artemisia Gentileschi, Anna Maria Vaiani, and Virginia da Vezzo
Consuelo Lollobrigida

‘Il Pennello Virile’: Elisabetta Sirani and Artemisia Gentileschi as Masculinized Painters?
Adelina Modesti

Allegories of Inclination and Imitation at the Casa Buonarroti
Laura Camille Agoston

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy by Artemisia Gentileschi. A Technical Study
Christina Currie, Livia Depuydt, Valentine Henderiks, Steven Saverwyns, and Ina Vanden Berghe

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Maxime Georges Métraux (14 février 2018). Publication : “Artemisia Gentileschi in a Changing Light”. Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 16 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p6o3


Maxime Georges Métraux

Doctorant en Histoire de l'art moderne (Université Paris IV –Sorbonne, Centre André Chastel – UMR 8150). Expert pour la galerie Hubert Duchemin et chargé d’enseignement à l'Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Commissaire scientifique de l’exposition "Chic Emprise : Cultures, usages et sociabilités du tabac du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle" (22 juin - 23 septembre 2019) au musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle.

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